“There is so much to be learned and seen out there,” he said. “A man could look at other worlds without a curtain of air between himself and them. A man could look at his own world, study the flow of weather over it, measure its true dimensions.” This last surprised me. I thought the dimensions of our world were well known. “A man out there could learn much about the wonderful showers of matter and energy in space,” said Stepan. And he spoke of many other poetic and scientific joys out there.
